Manually switching graphics card on T410S (with switchable graphics)??

Hi - does anyone know if it is possible to manually control what graphics card to use?
I can set it in the power plan options, but I want to set it manually too. I might need to use internal graphics even if I have power on, or the discrete graphics on battery, and that is not reflected weill in the "timed" options you get through the Power Plan. There is no way to set it with the Notification Area icon, or through the Nvidia control panel :-/
regards
Lars

It probable just needs a good switch "kick" in the nvram noggin' is all!
Try zapping pram/nvram or open firmware. Any drivers for Radeon are part of OS X.
You could look on ATI but I don't think you need these.
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/mac/macosx10-4x-3x-radeon.html

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acpi
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Thats great, thank you. I have an older Dell Studio XPS 13 which has NVIDIA Hybrid SLI. Its current power usage in Arch is killing me (about an hour and a half, where as i can get 3-4 hrs in win7). Right now I am doing all the work through the integrated graphics card, per my xorg.conf, but i dont think i've managed to disable the discrete card yet. When I get on the laptop I'll let you know how it goes.

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As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with no Display when connected to docking station on your ThinkPad T410.
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